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Writings and Literature

The Slender Man entity has been mentioned in many poems and stories throughout the centuries. One of the earliest known mentions of the being come from the 16th century seer Nostradamus. A number of his prophecies seem to mention a being eerily similar to that of the Slender Man.

II 9:

Nine years the lean one will hold the realm in peace,

Then he will fall into a very bloody thirst:

Because of him a great people will die without faith and law

Killed by one far more good-natured.

II 10:

Before long all will be set in order,

We will expect a very sinister century,

The state of the masked and solitary ones much changed,

Few will be found who want to be in their place.

IV 24:

Beneath the holy earth of a soul the faint voice heard,

Human flame seen to shine as divine:

It will cause the earth to be stained with the blood of the monks,

And to destroy the holy temples for the impure ones.

IV 25:

Lofty bodies endlessly visible to the eye,

Through these reasons they will come to obscure:

Body, forehead included, sense and head invisible,

Diminishing the sacred prayers.

VIII 81:

The new empire in desolation

will be changed from the Northern Pole.

From Sicily will come such trouble that

it will bother the enterprise tributary to Philip.

VIII 82:

Thin tall and dry, playing the good valet

in the end will have nothing but his dismissal;

sharp poison and letters in his collar,

he will be seized escaping into danger.

XI 19:

Six hundred and five, six hundred and six and seven,

It will show us up to the year seventeen,

The anger, hatred and jealousy of the incendiary,

For a long enough time hidden under the olive tree,

The Crocodile has hidden on the land,

That which was dead will then be alive.

XI 20:

He who several times has

Held the cage and then the woods,

He will return to the first state

His life safe shortly afterwards to depart,

Still not knowing how to know,

He will look for a subject in order to die.

Another early mention of the creature comes from an old German folk song, "Schlankwald". The translator was unable to be found for comment.

Schlankwald
by: Unknown